Chris Hipkins: Prime Minister on the new truancy scheme and post-cyclone crime - The Mike Hosking Breakfast

The Government's taking action on poor school attendance rates through a 74-million dollar package.

More than 80 attendance officer positions are being created to work with around three-thousand students who are continually bunking class.

Prime Minister Chris Hipkins confirms that it's a different approach than previous efforts, which had a range of contracted providers who could employ whoever they wanted.

In the wake of Gabrielle, people are being urged to hand in any evidence of post-disaster crime.

Hipkins told Mike Hosking that claims of looting and other crime are being investigated, but so far they're unsubstantiated or there was another explanation.

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